Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic range shifts in an ocean-warming hotspot

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 944-953

  Sunday, Jennifer M ^a,b   Pecl, Gretta T ^c   Frusher, Stewart ^c   Hobday, Alistair J ^d   Hill, Nicole ^c   Holbrook, Neil J ^c   Edgar, Graham J ^c   Stuart Smith, Rick ^c   Barrett, Neville ^c   Wernberg, Thomas ^e,f   Watson, Reg A ^c   Smale, Dan A ^g   Fulton, Elizabeth A ^d   Slawinski, Dirk ^d   Feng, Ming ^d   Radford, Ben T ^e,f   Thompson, Peter A ^d   Bates, Amanda E ^c,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^g THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benthic invertebrates; Climate change; Climate response; Fishes; Functional traits; Invasion; Range expansion; Range shifts; Range size

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL WARMING; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RANGE EXPANSION; RANGE SIZE; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VELOCITY;

AUSTRALIA;

INVERTEBRATA; PISCES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUSTRALIA; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SEA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; HOMING BEHAVIOR; INVERTEBRATES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84938956821     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12474     Document Type: Article

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